I keep calling it the I-thought. It's a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it?… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished. — Robert Adams Art Copy Share Image
. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion. — Robert Adams Art Copy Share Image
Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones. — Robert Adams Appreciation Copy Share Image
Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse. — Robert Adams Innovation Copy Share Image
Our universe is a sea of energy - free, clean energy. It is all out there waiting for us to set sail… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
You are before being and not being, awake and dream take place in time. You have no time. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Larry Schwarm's photographs of fire on the prairie are so compelling that I cannot imagine any later photographer trying to do better.… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
My first show at MoMA in New York was pictures of new developments along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. They… — Robert Adams Brutal Copy Share Image
Many have asked, pointing incredulously toward a sweep of tract homes and billboards, why picture that? The question sounds simple, but it… — Robert Adams Billboards Copy Share Image
Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each… — Robert Adams Art Copy Share Image
Again the important point to remember is that you should keep asking yourself questions. Do not make statements. Ask questions to yourself.… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I have asked students at the beginning of their careers, what things of that sort might haunt them – what things they… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I've been so lonely trying to become a photographer. If I'd known that before, I don't know if I had the courage… — Robert Adams Audience Copy Share Image
The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest… — Robert Adams Art Copy Share Image
“At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands in front of the camera, to honor what is… — Robert Adams Photography Copy Share Image
All these years you've been searching and looking and trying to change things, trying to add thing onto yourself, trying to acquire… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
There's something within you that knows what to do. There is a power greater than you that knows how to take care… — Robert Adams Care Copy Share Image
Never pray to God for release of your problems. Never pray to God to change your life, and to give you something… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is… — Robert Adams Affection Copy Share Image
In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at any minute… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Well, you know, the mind is nothing. The mind is only a bunch of thoughts. Thoughts about the past and the future,… — Robert Adams Absolutes Copy Share Image
We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture. — Robert Adams Architecture Copy Share Image
Darkroom work had, after all, never interested me except as a means to an end; the place I wanted to be was… — Robert Adams Darkroom Copy Share Image
...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the… — Robert Adams Art Copy Share Image
Dive into your heart center. Sit in the silence. Desire self-realization with all your heart, with all your mind, and all your… — Robert Adams Care Copy Share Image
No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of… — Robert Adams Art Copy Share Image
The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only… — Robert Adams Absurd Copy Share Image
Art depends on there being affection in its creator's life and an artist must find ways, like everyone else, to nourish it.… — Robert Adams Affection Copy Share Image
You are the Self, that perfect immutable Self. Nothing else exists. Nothing else ever existed. Nothing else will ever exist. There is… — Robert Adams Identity Copy Share Image
No matter how many times I tell you this, you're still thinking, thinking, judging, judging, coming to conclusions, trying to work out… — Robert Adams Body Copy Share Image
Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is… — Robert Adams Audience Copy Share Image
Happiness is your True Nature. Within you is Unimaginable Beauty. Your True Self is Bright and Shining this Moment. Through the clear… — Robert Adams Beauty Copy Share Image
There is always a subjective aspect in landscape art, something in the picture that tells us as much about who is behind… — Robert Adams Art Copy Share Image
Whatever power there is in the urban pictures is bound to the closeness with which they skirt banality. For a shot to… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is… — Robert Adams Art Copy Share Image
